Scientists at the University of California San Francisco say they’ve discovered the key to how the human brain can tune out all the noises around us and focus on the one conversation that’s important at the moment, what neuroscientists call “selective hearing.” They hope this breakthrough will help unravel the secret to the other side of selective hearing—how humans can hear a pencil fall three rooms away yet not hear their spouse who is three feet away ask them to take out the trash.

Ever fumble around in the dark looking for change and have a hard time telling which one is a quarter? Your troubles will be over soon. Well, if you’re in Canada. The Royal Canadian Mint (motto: “We sound like an ice cream flavor but we’re not”) has announced that it will be issuing a glow-in-the-dark quarter soon. On one side will be Queen Elizabeth — who won’t glow — and on the other side will be an image of a dinosaur that, in the dark, will be replaced by a glowing image of its skeleton. The quarter will cost about $30 U.S. And you wondered why their one dollar coin is called a “Loonie.”

A headline on CNN.com discussing Mark Zuckerberg et. al. buying Instagram asks, “When did Facebook become so uncool?” Let’s see….could it have been the day your mother Poked you and sent a friend request?

According to a CNN Breaking News banner on their website, “President Obama clinches the Democratic presidential nomination by winning primaries in D.C. and Maryland, CNN projects.” That big gasp you just heard wasn’t people in Dallas watching a tractor-trailer get sucked up in the air by a tornado, it was the White House breathing a sigh of relief that the hard-fought battle for the nomination is finally over.